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Eddie Murphy in Beverly Hills Cop (1984)

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Beverly Hills Cop

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Edited into

    • Yoostar 2: In the Movies (Video Game 2011)

      Clips used for Yoostar karaoke.

Featured in

    • The Pointer Sisters: Neutron Dance (Music Video 1984)

      features clips from the film
    • "At the Movies" Beverly Hills Cop/2010/Stranger Than Paradise/City Heat (TV Episode 1984)

      Reviewed; clips are shown.
    • Glenn Frey: The Heat Is On (Music Video 1984)

      features clips from the film
    • Harold Faltermeyer: Axel F (Music Video 1985)

      features clips from the film
    • Precious Images (Short 1986)

Followed by

    • Beverly Hills Cop II (1987)

    • Beverly Hills Cop III (1994)

    • Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F (2024)

Referenced in

    • "Saturday Night Live" Eddie Murphy/Robert Plant & The Honeydrippers (TV Episode 1984)

      Title mentioned by Eddie Murphy during his monologue.
    • "At the Movies" Dune/Starman/Mass Appeal/Runaway (TV Episode 1984)

      Referenced by Roger Ebert in his review of "Runaway".
    • Jerry Bruckheimer & Don Simpson 'Beverly Hills Cop' Interview (Video 1984)

      Focus of the interview.
    • "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson" Peter Fonda/Charles Nelson Reilly/A. Whitney Brown (TV Episode 1985)

      Mentioned in the monologue
    • "Knight Rider" Junk Yard Dog (TV Episode 1985)

      Insidental music for this episode was inspired by Harold Faltermeyer's Axel F. Theme

References

    • Night Owls (Short 1930)

      Laurel & Hardy try to climb over a high wall in every which way they can, which is almost identical to the scene in Beverly Hills Cop when Rosewood & Taggart try to get over a high wall towards the end of the movie.
    • Way Out West (1937)

      Laurel & Hardy did the same thing Rosewood and Taggart did when they tried to climb over the wall. Here also the heavier one gets help from the other guy who pushes him up the wall. Also, director Martin Brest says they are a reference to Laurel & Hardy.
    • The Beverly Hillbillies (TV Series 1962–1971)

      Shot of palm trees and Axel driving into Beverly Hills is a parody of the intro to this TV show. (source: Beverly Hills Cop DVD commentary)
    • Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)

      During the shootout, Rosewood tells Taggart that it reminds him of the end of the movie.
    • Mean Streets (1973)

      Director Martin Brest says the dialogue exchange between Axel and a cigarette smuggler is a reference to a similar exchange between DeNiro and Keitel in "Mean Streets."

Spin-off

    • Beverly Hills Cop (Video Game 1990)

    • Beverly Hills Cop (TV Movie 2013)

      Follows the son of Axel Foley from the original

Spoofed in

    • Beverly Hills Heat (Video 1985)

      Video's title is a takeoff on the mainstream film's title.
    • Beaverly Hills Cop (Video 1985)

      Sex-parody
    • Beverly Hills Cox (1986)

    • "The Simpsons" Separate Vocations (TV Episode 1992)

      The music during the locker search spoofs the film's opening music.
    • "Clerks" A Dissertation on the American Justice System by People Who Have Never Been Inside a Courtroom, Let Alone Know Anything About the Law, But Have Seen Way Too Many Legal Thrillers (TV Episode 2000)

      an animated Judge Reinhold puts a banana in a tailpipe

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